Jcc Man Enters Guilty Plea In Texaco Robbery

WILLIAMSBURG — A James City County man pleaded guilty in Circuit Court on Wednesday to robbing a store in January.

Randy Canady, 24, of the 100 block of Colby Road, will be sentenced April 26.

Canady brandished a rusty steel-bladed steak knife and stole $142 from a clerk at the One-Stop Texaco store at 1625 Richmond Road in Williamsburg on Jan. 21, said Commonwealth's Attorney George C. Fairbanks IV.

Shortly after the incident, Williamsburg police officer Ken Lawson apprehended Canady nearby, recovered the money and the knife and got a confession from Canady.

A related charge of possession of cocaine was dropped because the amount of cocaine residue found on a used beer can in Canady's pocket was "negligible," Fairbanks said.